Cafuso

/kəˈfjuːsoʊ/ noun

In Brazilian Portuguese, a person of mixed African and Indigenous heritage; historically used in colonial racial classification systems.

Possibly from Portuguese 'cafo' combined with a suffix, or from African language sources. Used in colonial Brazil's complex system of racial categorization that had dozens of specific terms.

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